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  1. Sony PlayStation no longer wants us to own video games. As I understand, they implied we are only being licensed to the games. Days ago, they emailed users the full Terms of Service or something similar, asserting Sony PlayStation policy. Ok, what's your opinion? Because I very rarely play video games. Plus, I have never owned a console.

    #digitalrights #drm #tech #ownership #playstation #sony #indieweb #videogames #consumerrights #righttorepair #software #systemicissues #openweb #critique

  2. "We force animals to adapt to the constraints of farming modelled on the mass production of manufactured goods, whereas farming should respect the ethological needs of animals. This is a transgression because we grant ourselves an absolute right that we do not have. This violence towards animals is a condemnation of us. Yet our relationship with animals could be an opportunity to think about a way of inhabiting the Earth that makes coexistence with other species possible. This requires new foundations for ethics and politics."

    – Corine Pelluchon

    #factoryFarms #farms #ownership #coexistence #eugenics #capitalism #extractivism #appropriation #landGrab #plantations #slavery #nature #separation #epistemology #speciesism #antiSpeciesism #animals #philosophy #beliefs #squash #inhabitability #grievability #farming #quote #quotes

  3. "Stop underestimating the future value of your current insight.” - Futurist Jim Carroll

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    Futurist Jim Carroll is writing a series, The Art of the Infinite Pivot, based on 36 lessons from his 36 years as a solo entrepreneur, working as a nomadic worker in the global freelance economy. The series is unfolding here, and at pivot.jimcarroll.com.
    --

    Back in 1989, while I was in the midst of my career crisis that would ultimately see me leave the corporate world and start my own freelance "thing," I obsessed over thinking about what possible value my unique skills might be.

    After all, I had gone far from my original professional accounting roots, and was deeply involved in all the merging technology, culturem and opportunities of what was then the emerging Internet. I wasn't on the leading edge - I was somewhere far out ahead of most other people in the world - my skills were so niche, so unique, so narrow that I couldn't think of what possible value they might be to any organization in the world.

    Five years later, I had a **#1** national bestselling book, my business was thriving, and I had people begging me to come into their organizations to explain this strange new world - for money.

    With all that, I learned a very powerful lesson: one of the hardest things to do in a long-term career is to accurately value what you know. It's still the case for me - when you’ve spent 36 years "putting in the work" (**#16**) and "frequenting the fringes" (**#15**), your intuition becomes so sharp that you often mistake it for common sense.

    You assume everyone sees the world the way you do.
    They don't.

    And that might be the most important skill you have - a theme I explore in depth in my upcoming Being Unique book. (It's still in editing!)

    In my voyage, I’ve realized that the "Infinite Pivot" isn't just about moving to the next thing. It’s about recognizing the massive value of the distance you’ve already traveled. What takes me five minutes to "see" today took me three decades to learn. What I knew in 1994 that propelled my success forward took me from 1982 to learn.

    So what's your value worth? The amateur prices by the hour. The expert prices by the decade.

    Own your expertise.

    Stop apologizing for your rate.

    The value of your insight isn't measured by how long it takes you to say it, but by how much it changes the world for the person who hears it.

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    Futurist Jim Carroll now realizes that what he knew in 1989 was unbelievably invaluable at the time. It just took him a few years to recognize it.

    **#Value** **#Insight** **#Expertise** **#Worth** **#Unique** **#Skills** **#Underestimate** **#Decades** **#Learning** **#Perspective** **#BeingUnique** **#Freelance** **#Lessons** **#Clarity** **#Lens** **#Pricing** **#Confidence** **#Knowledge** **#Rare** **#Asset** **#Journey** **#Distance** **#Ownership** **#Recognition** **#Onwards**

    Original post: jimcarroll.com/2026/04/decodin

  4. This Is What a Personal Surveillance System Actually Looks Like

    You stop thinking of it as surveillance. It becomes “the system.” Just part of how things run.

    cha1nc0der.wordpress.com/2026/

  5. I'm not sure it's fair or right to say that you own a box of candy bars just because you're standing in front of a vending machine...

    #paywall #righttorepair #ownership #softwareasaservice #apps #operatingsysterms

  6. “zipf maneuvers: on non-reprintable materials”, by andrew c. wenaus & germán sierra

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    https://www.erratumpress.com/zipf-maneuvers

    Sierra e Wenaus utilizzano un algoritmo Python per riorganizzare i loro articoli originali secondo le distribuzioni Zipfiane, ordinando alfabeticamente e indicizzando numericamente ogni parola. Questa riorganizzazione produce un set di dati frammentato e non lineare che resiste alla lettura convenzionale. A ogni parola viene assegnato un numero corrispondente alla sua posizione originale nel testo, creando una struttura disarticolata, simile a un catalogo. Il risultato è una protesta contro la finanziarizzazione della conoscenza da parte delle aziende e una critica alle leggi sulla proprietà intellettuale che ne limitano l’accesso. Trasformando i propri saggi in dati riorganizzati algoritmicamente, Zipf Maneuvers mette in atto una singolare forma di resistenza, denunciando l’assurdità di un sistema che ostacola la libera circolazione delle idee

    https://x.com/german_sierra/status/1876614643558613205

    #AndrewCWenaus #AndrewWenaus #catalogo #ErratumPress #ErratumPress #freeFiles #GermánSierra #installazione #installazioneTestuale #ownership #Python #scrittureInstallative #StevenShaviro #Zipf #ZipfManeuvers #ZipfManeuversOnNonReprintableMaterials

  7. A quotation from The Bible

    The faithful all lived together and owned everything in common; they sold their goods and possessions and shared out the proceeds among themselves according to what each one needed.
     
    [πάντες δὲ οἱ πιστεύοντες ἦσαν ἐπὶ τὸ αὐτὸ καὶ εἶχον ἅπαντα κοινὰ καὶ τὰ κτήματα καὶ τὰς ὑπάρξεις ἐπίπρασκον καὶ διεμέριζον αὐτὰ πᾶσιν καθότι ἄν τις χρείαν εἶχεν·]

    The Bible (The New Testament) (AD 1st - 2nd C) Christian sacred scripture
    Acts 2:44-45 [JB (1966)]

    More info about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/bible-nt/79533/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #bible #newtestament #acts #actsoftheapostles #Christians #commune #community #faithful #money #ownership #property #sharing #togetherness